Well that was the problem, trying to use the ISO image (with both Ventoy and balenaEtcher) simply didn’t work, and I was unable to reinstall Windows for god knows why. I looked at the site of balenaEtcher and apparently they don’t do Windows ISOs.
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Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Windows’ installation assistant only runs on Windows
Well, yes, but all that is a GUI to simplify downloading and writing the Windows installation ISO to USB media. You can download the ISO image to Linux and write it to USB yourself. The option to download the ISO is on the same page you’ve been getting Media Creation Tool.
You could get Bedrock edition from the Google Play store and run it via an Android emulator.
Otherwise, based on your other comments, it seems like you’re trying to trudge through manually trimming down a preexisting OEM install of Windows. For such a minimal use case, you would probably benefit from a clean reinstall and should consider exploring something like Tiny11, ReviOS, or AtlasOS
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
No additional software necessary
sudo dd status=progress if=Windows.iso of=/dev/sdXX is the letter assigned to your USB device, visible in
lsblk
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
A clean reinstall would certainly ruin my dual boot (Windows loves occupying the entire drive), and I have already spent many hours waiting for the disk partitions to reshuffle and resize when reclaiming that ~180GB of space. Also, things like Tiny11, being repacked versions of Windows, could easily be compromised and have all sorts of nasty malware. Having about 87GB of space for Windows is fine right now, and since my laptop has 1TB of storage, Fedora gets over 900GB of space. Much better than the ~700GB I started with.